176c021 [qa] Test non-atomic chainstate writes (Suhas Daftuar)
d6af06d Dont create pcoinsTip until after ReplayBlocks. (Matt Corallo)
eaca1b7 Random db flush crash simulator (Pieter Wuille)
0580ee0 Adapt memory usage estimation for flushing (Pieter Wuille)
013a56a Non-atomic flushing using the blockchain as replay journal (Pieter Wuille)
b3a279c [MOVEONLY] Move LastCommonAncestor to chain (Pieter Wuille)
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4b06e41 Add unit test for FindEarliestAtLeast (Suhas Daftuar)
997a98a Replace FindLatestBefore used by importmuti with FindEarliestAtLeast. (Gregory Maxwell)
This replaces using inv messages to announce new blocks, when a peer requests
(via the new "sendheaders" message) that blocks be announced with headers
instead of inv's.
Since headers-first was introduced, peers send getheaders messages in response
to an inv, which requires generating a block locator that is large compared to
the size of the header being requested, and requires an extra round-trip before
a reorg can be relayed. Save time by tracking headers that a peer is likely to
know about, and send a headers chain that would connect to a peer's known
headers, unless the chain would be too big, in which case we revert to sending
an inv instead.
Based off of @sipa's commit to announce all blocks in a reorg via inv,
which has been squashed into this commit.
Rebased-by: Pieter Wuille
Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks,
actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which
headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent
accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to
do.
We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers
filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once
a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before
that point are allowed anymore.